IMAGINARY GIRL: The Occupation of Patty Hearst (an alternative identity musical)

Part psychological thriller.
Part heartbreaking drama.
Part spectacular farce.

Set in 1974, IMAGINARY GIRL -- interprets the real-life story surrounding the 1974 political kidnapping of a 19-year-old media heiress by a ragtag militant group. After being held captive in a closet for 59 days, she emerges declaring her new identity as Tania and her “choice” to join her kidnappers...
Part psychological thriller.
Part heartbreaking drama.
Part spectacular farce.

Set in 1974, IMAGINARY GIRL -- interprets the real-life story surrounding the 1974 political kidnapping of a 19-year-old media heiress by a ragtag militant group. After being held captive in a closet for 59 days, she emerges declaring her new identity as Tania and her “choice” to join her kidnappers' mission to overthrow the US government. As her unbelievable ordeal unfolds, it is dissected, distorted and exploited by The Media, and holds the world spellbound as Patty changes from an innocent victim into a fugitive outlaw right in front of our eyes.

This play's real-life TRUE STORY centers on A STRONG COMPLEX FEMALE PROTAGONIST who eventually discovers she is the only one who can save herself.

IMAGINARY GIRL takes-on a newly-emerging 21st century theme: The Disintegration of Consensus Reality, the end of our once-universal and once-dependable shared reality. This theme is illuminated BEYOND the identity-confusion of the play’s central character. The play reveals how ALL conflicts – internal, interpersonal, and political – are BATTLES OF COMPETING VERSIONS OF REALITY.

The play asks us to prompts the question:
How much of our personal and political identity is guided by forces beyond our own freewill?

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IMAGINARY GIRL: The Occupation of Patty Hearst (an alternative identity musical)

Development History

  • Workshop
    ,
    National O'Neill Musical Theater Conference - SEMI-FINALIST (Finalist Status still TBD)
    ,
    2023
  • Workshop
    ,
    La Mama International Director’s Symposium — Umbria, Italy
    ,
    2021
  • Workshop
    ,
    5D Media Lab
    ,
    2019
  • Workshop
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    5D Media Lab (Second Workshop in 2019)
    ,
    2019
  • Workshop
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    Developmental workshop, The Marsh Theater, San Francisco, CA
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    2017
  • Reading
    ,
    Full Staged Reading - Nancy Hayes Studio, San Francisco, CA (Community-based Theater Development Program)
    ,
    2016
  • Workshop
    ,
    Musical Café “The SF Bay Area Musical Theatre Development Program” San Francisco, CA *Audience Favorite*
    ,
    2016
  • Commission
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    5D Media Lab
    ,
    2015

Awards

Semi-Finalist
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National O'Neill Musical Theater Conference - SEMI-FINALIST (Finalist Status still TBD)
,
National O'Neill Musical Theater Conference - SEMI-FINALIST (Finalist Status still TBD)
,
2023
Audience Choice
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AUDIENCE FAVORITE -- bestowed regional Dramatist Guild representative
,
Musical Café Showcase - San Francisco
,
2016